News from the Note…
A round up of the day’s news that might be of interest to you.
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President Trump has not called Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz more than 24 hours after a prominent state lawmaker and her husband were killed in what officials have described as a "politically motivated assassination."
— Axios (@axios.com) June 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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A massive search stretched into its second day Sunday for a man who authorities say wore a mask and posed as a police officer while fatally shooting a Democratic state lawmaker in her suburban Minneapolis home, an act Gov. Tim Walz called “a politically motivated assassination.”
— PBS News (@pbsnews.org) June 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Authorities find a second vehicle belonging to the suspect accused of killing a Minnesota state lawmaker and the shooting of another
— CNN (@cnn.com) June 15, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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BREAKING: President Trump rejected an Israeli plan to kill Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, sources say.
— CBS News (@cbsnews.com) June 15, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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JUST IN: Tehran launches another missile salvo after Israel said it began a "series of strikes" in western Iran cnn.it/3HFEvDj
— CNN (@cnn.com) June 15, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Los Angeles police used tear gas and crowd-control munitions to break up protests after issuing a 4 p.m. dispersal order for downtown, where a major demonstration against the Trump administration gave way to another night of smaller but raucous protests against recent immigration raids.
— The New York Times (@nytimes.com) June 14, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Saturday’s military parade in Washington celebrating the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army was sponsored by at least four brands that have strong financial and political ties to President Trump, raising questions about whether the event benefited his allies and supporters.
— The New York Times (@nytimes.com) June 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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NEW: President Trump’s second-term approval rating remains stuck in negative territory, as are general attitudes toward his administration’s policies, according to a new NBC News Decision Desk Poll powered by SurveyMonkey. https://nbcnews.to/4e7iuJC
— NBC News (@nbcnews.com) June 15, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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NEW: Trump's pivot on targeting *all* undocumented immigrants appears to have emerged Wednesday, sources tell Axios. Agriculture Sec. Brooke Rollins called Trump to say farm groups were increasingly concerned about the impact of the stepped-up raids.
— Axios (@axios.com) June 15, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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The president of a meat-processing plant says there's "no playbook" on how to move forward after 76 workers were arrested.
— NBC News (@nbcnews.com) June 15, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Elon Musk has lost some of his luster with Republicans since his public falling-out with President Donald Trump, a new AP-NORC poll finds.
— The Associated Press (@apnews.com) June 15, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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NASA is evaluating apparently successful efforts by Russian cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station to seal up small-but-persistent air leaks in a vestibule leading to an aft docking port, the U.S. space agency said Saturday.
— CBS News (@cbsnews.com) June 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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"Learn everything you can about what you love, and no one can take that from you," says one reader's dad. Here are 7 other pieces of fatherly advice.
— NPR (@npr.org) June 15, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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